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Valve's Portal Remade in ASCII

Retro gaming gets taken to new level with one man's quest to recreate Portal using ASCII.

Valve's Portal mopped up praise and countless awards when it launched as part of The Orange Box compilation in late 2007. The snarky first-person puzzler is now the subject of an attempt to recreate the basic gameplay elements of the game entirely in ASCII over on the retro-obsessed gaming site Cymon's Games.

We'll be keeping tabs on ASCIIpOrtal's development and you should too.

Bryn says: This is what makes the Internet a great place in my opinion. Without access to other people's lives we'd never know about cool homebrewed creations like ASCIIpOrtal. Cymon's got some talent alright, but like one of the comments over on his site acknowledges, I'd love to see what kind of original concepts he could come up with.